She's No Eunuch

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She's No Eunuch

"I'm as territorial as a robin, who will drill his beak into the skull of any interloper robin who wanders on to his patch," said celebrated feminist Germaine Greer, following her harrowing ordeal at the hands of a young female intruder. Karen Burke, a 19-year-old university student and ardent admirer of Greer's, forced her way into the writer's home in Great Chesterford, England. Once inside, she threatened Greer and smashed some of her belongings. Neighbors heard the ruckus and the police were duly summoned. Greer did not say whether or not the Great Chesterford bobbies had to extract her beak from Ms. Burke's skull.